Plisetskaya

The famed Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya once described ballet as dancers "singing with their bodies" and how audiences instinctively respond to this "song."

Dancing to a New Tune Sarah Frater 2011

It became the accompaniment for a ballet in 1972 that starred Mr. Shchedrin's legendary ballerina wife, Maya Plisetskaya, who also created its choreography for Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet.

Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New Robert Greskovic 2011

A Russian legend sang “tak krasivo, moy lebed” “so beautiful, my swan,” as a young American skater soared and spiraled across a giant sheet of mirrored ice, re-imagining the iconic performance of Maya Plisetskaya as the Dying Swan.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

A Russian legend sang “tak krasivo, moy lebed” “so beautiful, my swan,” as a young American skater soared and spiraled across a giant sheet of mirrored ice, re-imagining the iconic performance of Maya Plisetskaya as the Dying Swan.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

A Russian legend sang “tak krasivo, moy lebed” “so beautiful, my swan,” as a young American skater soared and spiraled across a giant sheet of mirrored ice, re-imagining the iconic performance of Maya Plisetskaya as the Dying Swan.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

Plisetskaya was married, and five years older than the American actor, who was then twenty-nine.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Was it possible that Plisetskaya was appropriating the message of Laurencia for her own ends?

Spartacus; Laurencia 2010

Beatty and Plisetskaya occasionally double-dated with Jaglom and Wood.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

In 1959 Plisetskaya danced with the Bolshoi on its first, headline-making tour of the United States.

Maya Plisetskaya. 2009

Sulamif took in Plisetskaya; Asaf sheltered her older brother Azari (who also became a dancer and a frequent partner of Alicia Alonso in the 1960s).

Maya Plisetskaya. 2009